through them. you should still prepare for the possibility of power outages here as well. we re in touch with our partners throughout out of western and central matches and we ll be ready to assist with washed-out roads, debris cleanup, and power outages as they become necessary. given the new storm track, we won t be calling up any additional national guard or personnel. the assets we currently have are moving closer to western mass to assist there or central mass if they re needed there. state police will be rededeploy their teams as well. looks like we re avoiding the worst for most of the state, but everyone should pay attention. it s been a long time since massachusetts has had to think about a hurricane making landfall here. the last one was 30 years ago. while it looks like we ll avoid a direct hit, it s always a good idea to be prepared because
Birmingham DPW begins two-day cleanup of storm debris
City of Birmingham storm cleanup Friday and Saturday By Chasity Maxie | April 16, 2021 at 7:42 PM CDT - Updated April 16 at 7:42 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Itâs been more than three weeks since tornadoes swept through our area causing widespread damage.
Birminghamâs Public Works Department started a large-scale cleanup effort Friday morning focusing on the hardest hit areas.
Deputy Director, Josh Yates, said crews have been working tirelessly since those tornadoes hit back on March 25th, but now theyâre focusing on the South East Lake and Roebuck Springs neighborhoods for the next two days.
i m standing here in wilmington. i understand the entire base lost power earlier and running on generators. where do things stand right now with camp lejeune? reporter: they re still out of power. it is all generator, though. but, craig, there s a sense they re starting to return a little bit back to normal. every time i say it appears that the wind dies down, it picks up again. they have a lot of debris cleanup here. i ll swing around far sense. take a look here. you see a lot of things here in the base. there, that stop sign down. there s going to be a lot of cleanup here and the first step before these marines can get out and help with recovery, help with cleanup, if they get the orders to do. i ve been talking to military officials, all day, all morning long and almost a sense of frustration they re ready to get out. they want to do some recovery, some cleanup. they just need to get the tasking, they just need the orders.
hundreds of thousands lost power. we already had some people get their power restored. i was surprised i m getting calls of people since this morning saying hey, i got my power back. or i get a text, we got our power back. so florida power and light is apparently working around the clock, and we appreciate that, to get the power back. but there are phases of recovery. if anybody tells you that you recover of a storm of this magnitude in a short period of time, they re not being accurate and truthful, because this is a phased recovery and will take care of some of the smaller things, the opening the roads, the debris cleanup, traffic signals. but this community took a pretty good bunch and we re going to be fine. but this is going to take weeks and months to fully recover.
in. have you added additional shelters here? we re opening up more shelters and asking for more volunteers. we will continue to open shelters to take care of people. we are working with all from the state level and the county level to make sure that we have, as close to you and where you re going to evacuate shelter. if we need to, we ll get buss and do everything we can to get you moved if there s not a shelter really close to you as they fill up. we re going to have enough shelters. that s one reason i shut down all the schools. we ll use those for shelters. we could always use more volunteers, too. what is it you re asking volunteers to do specifically? well, in the beginning it s going to be the shelters. help out at the shelters. after it hits, there will be a lot of supply and food distribution and a lot of other things to do. debris cleanup and things like that. in the beginning we have to